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BYU MBA in Wall Street Journal Top 10 for Second Consecutive Year

September 21, 2005
School Ranks Second as Place to Hire Ethical Graduates
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Rubber Hits the Road for BYU Accounting Students

September 07, 2005
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines. Roughly 250 Marriott School accounting students are about to participate in the campus’ first Pit Crew Challenge, sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The team-building event will take place Thursday and Friday in the Marriott Center parking lot, and Saturday in the Wilkinson Student Center parking lot south of the law school.
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BYU ranks 71st in new U.S.News & World Report survey

August 23, 2005
Brigham Young University is ranked 71st in U.S.News & World Report's annual survey, "America's Best Colleges," with the Marriott School's undergraduate program ranked among the top 50 in "Best Business Programs," coming in at 35th.
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CEOs Nominate BYU as Top Recruiting School

August 18, 2005
The Marriott School has caught the eye of CEOs according to a new poll by Chief Executive magazine. The survey, released in the publication’s July 2005 issue, asked magazine subscribers to name their top 10 business school programs from BusinessWeek’s top 25 b-schools. However, the 477 respondents didn’t limit views to the likes of Wharton, Sloan and Columbia. They also nominated BYU along with a few other business programs.
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School of Accountancy and Information Systems Separate

August 12, 2005
The Marriott School announces the division of the School of Accountancy and Information Systems into two parts: the School of Accountancy and the Information Systems Department. The change resulted from numerous discussions among BYU faculty and administration.
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BYU MPA grad takes top spot at Utah Department of Commerce

July 20, 2005
Master of Public Administration Program Celebrates 40 Years
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Alianza Excels at International Business Plan Competition

June 02, 2005
One month after Alianza won BYU’s Business Plan Competition, the company placed in the top eight and received the Outstanding Business Plan Award in their division during the 22nd annual Global MOOT CORP Competition. On May 7 at the University of Texas at Austin, 40 teams of MBA students competed from top schools around the world including London Business School, Carnegie Mellon University, Northwestern University and Thammasat University.
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Nursing Background an Asset to Alumna

June 01, 2005
For someone trained as a nurse, the choice to pursue an MBA may have seemed atypical. Instead of giving bedside care to hospital patients, Christina Bowen Peterson opted for two more years of school and a slightly different career. However, her medical training proved to be an asset as she entered the workplace and prepared for motherhood.
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MBA Graduate Promotes Surgery Alternative

June 01, 2005
All Martin Egbert wanted was the best treatment for his son. What he found was a unique, nonsurgical method of treating clubfoot—promulgated on the Internet—and an opportunity to share his discovery with others.
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Seven O’Clock Club Carries On

June 01, 2005
When Sherman Doll, Jay Wirig, and Steve Leininger graduated from the MAcc program in 1979 and 1980, they never guessed that just a few years later they would be together again as partners in an accounting firm. They attribute their longtime friendship and professional success to their Marriott School training and something they call “The Seven O’Clock Club.”
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BYU Info Systems Students Place at National Conference

May 06, 2005
Marriott School information systems students received top marks during the National Collegiate Conference in Atlanta April 7-9. BYU students placed first and second in a database design contest and received honorable mentions for system analysis and design. About 800 students representing 88 schools across the nation attended this year’s conference.
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Marriott School Announces 2005 Merrill J. Bateman Award Winners

May 02, 2005
Students at Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Management selected two of their classmates and a professor to receive the 2005 Merrill J. Bateman Awards – the only school-wide awards selected entirely by students.
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The corporation strikes back: how businesses fight talent raiding

April 26, 2005
BYU study explains how to prevent the loss of key employees
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Marriott School Named Top Tier by Entrepreneur Magazine

April 20, 2005
Brigham Young University’s Marriott School is named one of the best collegiate entrepreneurship programs in the United States. In the April 2005 issue of Entrepreneur magazine, BYU appears in the first tier of the top 50 regional programs in the country.
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Former Governor Recognized as Administrator of the Year

April 19, 2005
Brigham Young University’s Romney Institute of Public Management named Olene S. Walker, former governor of Utah, as the 2005 Administrator of the Year. A scholarship was also founded in her honor.
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Alianza Wins 2005 Business Plan Competition

April 15, 2005
Alianza, a company that offers reduced telephone rates to Mexican residents by routing calls through the Internet, was named winner of the 2005 Business Plan Competition. Brian Beutler, CEO of Alianza, and Scott Bell, CTO of Alianza, accepted the $50,000 award of cash and in-kind services at the BPC finals April 1. Additionally, Alianza received the $9,000 Global Award prize from BYU’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Global Management Center.
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Romney Institute Renews Its Accreditation

April 11, 2005
The Marriott School’s MPA program gets another stamp of approval after completing its reaccreditation process last year. Of the national MPA programs eligible for participation in peer review, only 54 percent have been accredited by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration. Those numbers are growing, however, because schools recognize the benefits.
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BYU's law and business schools listed in U.S. News top 50

April 01, 2005
Other graduate programs and specialties in top 100
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